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6,000 sheep will soon be grazing on 10,000 acres of Texas solar fields

The largest solar grazing project in the U.S. will reduce mowing costs and emissions — and make for some happy sheep.

Now Howard is scrambling to fulfill his biggest order yet: for 6,000 sheep, which will be put to work grazing eight Texas solar fields run by Enel North America. Altogether, Enel’s eight solar installations occupy a stretch of land nearly the size of Manhattan and currently produce 2.6 gigawatts of power (a few of the fields are still in the final stages of construction). If every new solar project were built on agricultural land, 10 million acres at most would be needed to achieve a completely decarbonized electric grid by 2050 — that would still be less than 1 percent of all the country’s farmland.

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